EIGHT LIONS BEFORE BREAKFAST.

Shannon News, 9 December 1924, Page 2

EIGHT LIONS BEFORE BREAKFAST.

In the annals of quick’ shooting’ a bag of eight lions before breakfast must surely constitute a “highest on record.”

The incident is related in “Ramblings of a Rolling Stone,” by Mr. Gerald P. Stevens.

“Postma was a fine specimep of a young Dutchman, who was working as a transport rider to the Southern Dasin Nyero. Coming back one journey about 1913, with an empty waggon and a span of oxen, he was trekking all night along the road near the foothills of the big extinct volcano, Mount Suswa.

1 “Without being aware of the fact, he was being followed by a family of nine lions —father, mother and seven nearly full-grown cubs. When dawn came Postma ordered his two native drivers to outspan the tired and thirsty oxen for an hour's rest and food.

“They were grazing near the wagon when down came the troop of lions, and before anyone knew what was happening the biggest ox was killed and the family of lions were feeding. • “Postma had nothing but. a small sporting Lee-Metford, but the lions were too busy to take the least notice of him, and he drew a bead on each of them in turn.

“In this way, in as many minutes, he killed seven of them with one shot ea'ch; the eighth was badly wounded and picked up dead next day, and the old lion decamped before his turn came.”